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Looks beautiful! I'm a huge fan of the "Miss Read" books - they're so cosy and comforting in their simplicity - and this looks like I picture the villages in her books.
 
LadyA said:
Looks beautiful! I'm a huge fan of the "Miss Read" books - they're so cosy and comforting in their simplicity - and this looks like I picture the villages in her books.
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Ooh no! Sorry Lady A but they're honey coloured Cotswold stone and nowhere are there hills as steep as that, even the hill up from Lulling!
 
Margaid said:
Ooh no! Sorry Lady A but they're honey coloured Cotswold stone and nowhere are there hills as steep as that, even the hill up from Lulling!
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Well, I've only a very hazy grasp of British geography. No clue where the Cotswolds are relative to anywhere else!
 
I guess it's all "down south" to you, Lady A ?.

I grew up in Dorset. To us anything between Blandford and Shaftesbury was the Midlands. Anything beyond Shaftesbury was north!!
 
Icemaiden said:
I guess it's all "down south" to you, Lady A ?.

I grew up in Dorset. To us anything between Blandford and Shaftesbury was the Midlands. Anything beyond Shaftesbury was north!!
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More like "over there" as I'm in Ireland! I remember learning the industrial/manufacturing towns of the UK as a child in school - Leeds, Bradford, Huddersfield etc. - but just a vague idea that they were in the middle of the map, somewhere.
 
We were in Castleton a few years ago, lovely little town. When we had a lovely holiday in the Peak District. Fabulous walks all around the area.

Eyam the plague village was a lovely place, seeing all the plaques on the houses, a reminder of the great sacrifice the villagers made
 
They needed a different font for the light packaging
 

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A great demonstration of the importance of spacing! It's the trickiest bit of calligraphy IMHO...
 
Walked down to the end of the field out the front which has a rail crossing for tractors, and waited for the loco Sherwood Forester to come by en route to Chichester. Bit foggy and frosty -5C but the pics not too bad
 

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I didn't know you could get a direct train from Essex to Chichester... Is it one of those specials that are put on for rail enthusiasts?
 
I've just been watching a programme on French TV showing parts of England from the air. Some of it featured the steam locomotive 45110 which ran on the Severn Valley, Google tells me. I did catch a glimpse of a road sign pointing towards Worcester.
 
Yes it is a special, run by Steam Dreams, they do trips all over the country. Most in this area run from London, so it was nice to have one that went from Shoebury, there is another one next May to Portsmouth. You can go basic or dine in style in luxury Pullman carriages
 
Snowy in our neck of the woods today about 3-4 inches
 

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Thank God, no snow here, although further up the country had some. We've had low temps for here, -4 yesterday, but again, not as bad as other areas. I've seen pics of parts of the UK on the news though - terrible for people already struggling with energy & fuel bills, plus general cost of living increases, to now be dealing with such low temperatures.
 
Major incident declared here with half the houses in Shetland having no power for a second night. Ours was off for 24 hours. First time I’ve ever needed to use a cold chisel and hammer to get into my hens. Grass iced over so sheep totally dependant on hay and nuts. No post, shop shut, very much a siege mentality. Really glad I bought a load of gas cylinders last week.
 
Hen-Gen said:
Major incident declared here with half the houses in Shetland having no power for a second night. Ours was off for 24 hours. First time I’ve ever needed to use a cold chisel and hammer to get into my hens. Grass iced over so sheep totally dependant on hay and nuts. No post, shop shut, very much a siege mentality. Really glad I bought a load of gas cylinders last week.
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Although where I am is milder than the rest of Ireland (was minus 3C on the coldest night so far, compared to minus 10 further north) this is exactly why I had the stove put in the living room fireplace this year. And why I've stuck to using gas cylinders for cooking. Much more economical than electric cookers anyway.

Hope the cold spell doesn't last much longer. Was 4C here today - felt positively balmy!

What's caused the power outages, Hen Gen? It hasn't really been stormy, has it?
 
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